Kaita Town

One tree, at a glance, a whole forest.

Kaita Kannonmen Camphor Tree

Photo by Saigen Jiro (CC0)

01 ／ Former Chiba Residence

In the Chiba family's guest hall, records showstays by chief retainers and Nagasaki magistrates.

Kaita was a post town on the Saigoku Kaidō. The Chiba family (house name Jinboya), sake brewers, held key posts at the post station, including the Tenka-okuri and Yado-okuri duties for the Hiroshima domain. The guest hall of 1774 is in sukiya style, with carved transoms of reed geese, wave rabbits and dragons. The study is a prefectural Important Cultural Property; the garden, a prefectural Place of Scenic Beauty.

Guest hall built in 1774 (town website)
Study: prefectural Important Cultural Property; garden: prefectural Place of Scenic Beauty (designated 1991)
Open to the public for four days from the day before the 2nd and 4th Saturdays; free (town website)

02 ／ Une Kannonmen Tumuli

A round tumulus of the early 7th century:Tumulus No. 1 has a stone chamber 8.1 m long.

The Une Kannonmen tumuli lie on the south side of Mt. Hiura in Une 2-chome. The horizontal-entrance stone chamber (横穴式石室) of Tumulus No. 1 is 2.1 m high, 1.9 m wide and 8.1 m long; Sue ware, Haji ware and ironwork were excavated. The town's history says the size of the chamber shows that powerful local clans lived here.

No. 1 chamber: 2.1 m high, 1.9 m wide, 8.1 m long (town board of education)
Round tumulus built in the first half of the 7th century (town board of education)
Designated a town historic site

03 ／ Oda Mikio

Of the triple jump's three leaps,a ratio of 6:4:5 carried him farthest.

Oda Mikio, a native of Kaitaichi Town (now Kaita), jumped 15 m 21 cm in the triple jump at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics and became the first Japanese Olympic gold medalist. From records he wrote in his notebook every day, he found that the distance grew most when his three leaps were in a ratio of 6:4:5.

1928 Amsterdam Games, triple jump, won with 15 m 21 cm (town website)
Ratio of the three leaps: 6:4:5 (town website)
Oda Mikio Memorial Hall: free admission (town website)

Living here

Mt. Hiura to the north, the Seno River through the middle.

about 30,000 people
Rural district town

The town covers 13.79 km². Mt. Hiura (345.9 m) stands to the north, ranges of Dōsho and Kanagatōro form the east and west borders, and the Seno River flows through the middle into Kaita Bay. The old town center was Futsukaichi, near Kusakabashi Bridge; as river silt built up land, the center moved toward the river mouth, to Kaitaichi.

People living here: 29,636people
Area: 13.79km²
Households: 12,891households
Rent (average for rentals): 54,605yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 34 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —6 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

Shape

Borders 2 municipalities.

Kaita Town in Japan34.372°N 132.536°E

Territory of Kaita Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

4.8km

広島市, 熊野町

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Kaita Town isthis kind of town.

01Kaita is home to the Kaita Kannonmen Camphor Tree (海田観音免のクスノキ), a prefectural natural monument. Its trunk splits into two main limbs at 1.55 m above ground, and its large, dense crown makes the tree, about 29 m tall, look at a glance like a forest.
02Prosperous as a post town on the Saigoku Kaidō, it has the Former Chiba Residence, whose guest hall was built in 1774. Tumulus No. 1 of the Une Kannonmen group has a stone chamber 8.1 m long, and Oda Mikio, who won gold in the triple jump, was a native of Kaitaichi Town.
03A 13.79 km² town with Mt. Hiura to the north and the Seno River through the middle. The Hitomoshi Festival (火ともしまつり) at Desakimori Shrine (出崎森神社), a town cultural asset, has been held in mid-October.

See the town as it is now.

Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kaita Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗